BOLTS IN TURBINES
SABOTAGE ADMITTED Rec. April 15.) Rugby, April 14. Kotliarevsky, a dull-witted young man, the head of the turbine department at Zuevka electricity works, declared that his "downfall" began with the arrival of MacDonald, who requested him to conceal defects in the oil pumps and to remain late at the works and throw scrap iron, nails, and stones into the generators. Monkhouse when interviewed, explained that the Moscow office of the Metropolitan Vickers Company had ordered the replacement of parts from London to enable the defects to be immediately remedied. The prosecution retorted that the parts were qrdered only after the Russian commission of experts had conimenced inquiries. Kotliarevsky declared that he receiyed 1000. roubles fyom MacDqnald for throwing a holt into the generator. MacDonald, when question, admitted that he knew Kotliarevsky had wreqked the geperator. Monkhouse declared that a bolt was missing fpo,ni th'e generator . cdsing and suggested it had fallen and had not .been thrown into the motor.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 508, 17 April 1933, Page 5
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